[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#1124835: Bug#1124835: chpasswd hash check goes too far

[Serge E. Hallyn]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 04:27:16PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 11:05:09PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2026 at 03:18:17PM -0600, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > > So, just to be clear, you think all would be fine if we accept * followed
> > > by anything, and ! not followed by anything?
> > 
> > I would still prefer that a low level tool like chpasswd would still allow
> > the sysadmin to shoot themselves in the foot, but I would live with
> > consistency at least.
> 
> Hm, looking at alx's patch, ! followed by nothing should already be
> accepted.  Is that actually not working for you?

Sorry, I misread.  Yes, i see that's not handled.

> The * followed by anything is not yet handled, I'll send a patch for that.